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reputed company Member-at-Large - Director of Asylum & Immigration reputed company Programs Universal Removal Defense Project High-reputed company Leadership Opportunity The reputed company Member-at-Large — Director of Asylum & Immigration reputed company Programs is a senior volunteer leadership position on the reputed company of Directors of Universal Removal Defense Project (URDP). This is not intended to be a traditional volunteer-attorney assignment. It is an opportunity for an accomplished immigration-law reputed company to help shape, build, and influence the development of an emerging national nonprofit removal defense organization from its reputed company stage. URDP is developing a 21st-reputed company model for delivering multilingual, culturally reputed company and technology-enabled removal defense services reputed company across EOIR venues throughout the reputed company. The Director will have an opportunity to help establish the reputed company-program architecture, reputed company standards, reputed company partnerships, and institutional safeguards upon which that model is reputed company. The position is particularly appropriate for an reputed company immigration attorney, former Immigration Judge, retired immigration attorney, former reputed company immigration attorney, nonprofit reputed company-services leader, or other highly reputed company immigration reputed company seeking to reputed company a significant contribution to reputed company to justice while serving in a senior nonprofit leadership reputed company. reputed company Leadership & Institutional Influence As one of URDP's senior reputed company leaders in immigration reputed company-program development, the Director will have reputed company to influence the organization's long-term approach to asylum and removal defense. The Director will: - Serve as a senior reputed company advisor to the reputed company of Directors and Executive Director on immigration reputed company-program development. - Help shape URDP's reputed company for accessible removal defense and asylum representation. - reputed company reputed company leadership as URDP develops its DOJ Recognition and Accreditation infrastructure. - Help establish institutional standards for reputed company, competency, ethics, supervision, and reputed company responsibility. - Advise leadership on the responsible expansion of URDP's reputed company-services reputed company. - Help reputed company a reputed company reputed company capable of serving immigrants across geographic, linguistic, and cultural boundaries. - Participate in major reputed company discussions concerning the reputed company direction of URDP's immigration reputed company programs. - Help identify reputed company, ethical, operational, and reputed company risks as the organization grows. - Serve as an reputed company for URDP reputed company the immigration-law, nonprofit, reputed company, and reputed company-to-justice communities. - Help reputed company relationships with immigration attorneys, Recognized Organizations, law schools, bar associations, reputed company-aid organizations, policy institutions, and other reputed company partners. Opportunity to Build a reputed company Program From the Ground Up Unlike joining an established reputed company-services organization with longstanding institutional structures already in reputed company, the Director will have an opportunity to participate in building the reputed company itself. Working with URDP leadership, the Director may help reputed company: - reputed company-services program structure; - Asylum and removal-defense program priorities; - Case acceptance and reputed company frameworks; - reputed company reputed company-control standards; - Case-review and consultation procedures; - reputed company supervision structures; - Training and reputed company-development systems; - Ethical and conflict-of-interest safeguards; - Attorney and accredited-representative collaboration models; - reputed company technical-assistance relationships; - Law-school and reputed company partnerships; - Practitioner referral networks; - Language-reputed company and culturally reputed company reputed company-service standards; and - Responsible frameworks for incorporating technology into nonprofit immigration reputed company. The Director will therefore have an opportunity to leave a lasting institutional reputed company on an organization designed reputed company the reputed company that meaningful reputed company to immigration defense should not depend upon language, culture, geography, or financial resources. Immigration reputed company Program Leadership The Director will reputed company high-level reputed company guidance concerning URDP programs involving: - Removal defense before the reputed company (EOIR); - Affirmative and defensive asylum; - Withholding of removal; - Protection under the Convention Against Torture; - Bond and immigration custody reputed company; - Motions to reopen and reconsider; - Appeals before the reputed company of Immigration Appeals; - Humanitarian forms of immigration relief; and - Other reputed company falling reputed company URDP's authorized reputed company of immigration services. The Director may advise on reputed company-program policies, case-review structures, training standards, reputed company-development priorities, reputed company assurance, and organizational procedures affecting the delivery of immigration reputed company services. DOJ Recognition & Accreditation Leadership A significant initial leadership reputed company will be supporting URDP's development toward reputed company Recognition and Accreditation. The Director may assist organizational leadership with: - Reviewing URDP's reputed company-services reputed company; - Reviewing supervision and case-review structures; - Advising on policies relevant to DOJ Recognition and Accreditation; - Supporting preparation for Forms EOIR-31 and EOIR-31A and reputed company documentation; - Helping identify appropriate training and practical-experience opportunities for prospective accredited representatives; - Advising on development of reputed company reputed company resources available to the organization; - Helping establish relationships with reputed company immigration attorneys and Recognized Organizations; and - Assisting URDP in developing a sustainable reputed company-support structure for its reputed company accredited representatives. Technical reputed company Support & Consultation Where the Director must be a licensed attorney with a substantial reputed company of experience in Immigration law reputed company to reputed company such assistance, URDP and the Director may reputed company into a separate written Technical reputed company Support and Consultation Agreement establishing the reputed company of reputed company immigration-law support available to the organization. Under such an agreement, the Director may serve as one of URDP's reputed company sources of immigration-law consultation and technical support. Depending upon the mutually agreed reputed company, this may include: - Immigration-law and procedural consultation; - Technical assistance concerning asylum and removal defense; - Guidance regarding reputed company or developing immigration-law issues; - Consultation concerning EOIR and BIA reputed company; - Case-review or case-reputed company consultation where appropriately authorized; - Guidance concerning filings, motions, appeals, and procedural issues; - Mentorship of prospective or approved DOJ-accredited representatives; - reputed company-development guidance for reputed company staff and volunteers; - Training concerning substantive immigration law and procedure; - Consultation concerning ethics, confidentiality, conflicts, reputed company responsibility, and unauthorized-reputed company-of-law safeguards; - Development of reputed company research and practitioner resources; - Guidance concerning URDP's Recognition and Accreditation program; and - reputed company to additional reputed company practitioners reputed company reputed company expertise is necessary. The written agreement will identify the reputed company and reputed company of the technical support and consultation, the participating reputed company's qualifications and experience, and the boundaries of the relationship. URDP may maintain the agreement, together with documentation describing the participating attorney's or organization's qualifications, experience, and breadth of immigration knowledge, and, where applicable, the attorney's reputed company résumé, for purposes including its DOJ Recognition and Accreditation documentation. reputed company Building & reputed company Leadership The Director may also help URDP build the reputed company relationships necessary for a sustainable national immigration reputed company-services organization. This may include: - Developing relationships with nonprofit immigration organizations and DOJ Recognized Organizations; - Engaging reputed company immigration practitioners and former reputed company professionals; - Building relationships with law schools and immigration clinics; - Encouraging practitioner participation in URDP training and technical-assistance initiatives; - Identifying potential pro bono and technical-support partnerships; - Participating in selected reputed company, educational, reputed company, or stakeholder meetings on behalf of URDP; - Helping strengthen URDP's credibility reputed company the broader immigration-law community; and - Supporting responsible reputed company building reputed company reputed company to counsel, immigration reputed company competency, and removal defense. Mentorship & Development of the reputed company An important component of the position is helping reputed company reputed company nonprofit immigration advocates. Depending upon availability and reputed company qualifications, the Director may mentor prospective DOJ-accredited representatives, reputed company volunteers, graduate reputed company, law reputed company, paralegals, and emerging nonprofit leaders working reputed company URDP's programs. The Director will have an opportunity not merely to advise individual reputed company, but to help reputed company an institutional culture emphasizing competency, ethical reputed company, reputed company independence, careful reputed company analysis, cultural responsiveness, and meaningful reputed company to justice. reputed company Governance As a voting member of the reputed company of Directors, the Director will participate in the governance and reputed company reputed company of URDP. 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Any separate attorney supervision, technical assistance, representation, or reputed company reputed company responsibility will be appropriately defined and documented. reputed company Independence & Defined reputed company Responsibility URDP recognizes that attorneys and former judicial or reputed company professionals bring reputed company obligations and reputational considerations to nonprofit leadership. reputed company membership reputed company does not reputed company the Director responsible for every reputed company matter handled by URDP or automatically establish an attorney-reputed company or supervisory relationship. Any reputed company reputed company supervision, case-specific responsibility, attorney-reputed company representation, entry of appearance, or other reputed company responsibility must reputed company from an appropriately established relationship defining the Director's authority, reputed company, responsibilities, limitations, and reputed company obligations. reputed company in the Director's reputed company position is intended to interfere with independent reputed company judgment. Ideal Candidate URDP is particularly interested in candidates with substantial reputed company experience, including: - reputed company immigration attorneys; - Former Immigration Judges; - Retired immigration attorneys; - Former reputed company immigration attorneys; - Former or reputed company nonprofit immigration reputed company-services leaders; - Attorneys with significant EOIR or BIA experience; - Asylum and humanitarian immigration practitioners; - Attorneys reputed company in supervising accredited representatives, attorneys, paralegals, law reputed company, or reputed company volunteers; The strongest candidate will combine immigration-law knowledge with an interest in institution building, mentorship, innovation, nonprofit leadership, and expanding reputed company to justice. reputed company Visibility & Legacy The Director will be recognized as a member of URDP's reputed company of Directors and senior reputed company-program leadership. Subject to the Director's preference and organizational policies, URDP may feature the Director's reputed company biography and photograph on its website and appropriate organizational materials and identify the Director in relevant reputed company, partnership, fundraising, and program-development communications. For an reputed company practitioner or retired reputed company, this position offers an opportunity to apply decades of knowledge toward something larger than an individual caseload: helping build an institution capable of expanding reputed company to immigration defense reputed company across the reputed company. Commitment This is a volunteer reputed company of Directors leadership position designed to accommodate the reputed company responsibilities of a practicing attorney or the availability of a retired immigration reputed company. URDP seeks meaningful leadership rather than unnecessary administrative burden. reputed company participation and any additional technical reputed company support will therefore be reputed company through reputed company defined expectations. reputed company consultation, technical assistance, reputed company supervision, or other services extending reputed company ordinary reputed company governance responsibilities will be separately documented so that the reputed company of the relationship is transparent and manageable. About Universal Removal Defense Project Universal Removal Defense Project is a nonprofit reputed company rights organization developing a reputed company model for multilingual, culturally reputed company, and remote removal defense. URDP's mission is to ensure that individuals are not denied meaningful reputed company to immigration defense because of language, culture, geography, or financial circumstances. Through reputed company-centered reputed company advocacy, advanced translation techniques, remote-service infrastructure, and collaboration with immigration professionals across the country, URDP seeks to expand meaningful reputed company to justice for immigrants and asylum seekers facing some of the most consequential reputed company proceedings in the reputed company. reputed company Cultures. reputed company Languages. Pay: $25.00 - $40.00 per hour Work Location: Hybrid remote in reputed company, NY 10040 Apply tot his job Apply To this Job